6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• cities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

• land
• cities

• Open government data

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• cities

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. Transcribed with human review.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

• mobility
• cities

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• cities
• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Una plataforma de innovación abierta que permite acercar nuevas soluciones digitales a los grandes retos de los municipios participantes.

• cities

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

• cities

• Data governance
• Digital rights

NYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages

• cities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure

• cycling
• cities
• Google

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Public Private Partnerships

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

• cities
• local

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Open government data

Smart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.

• neighborhoods
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

• cities
• WhatsApp

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

A global community for cities to learn about generative AI together, faster.

• cities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

BLOXHUB is the Nordic Hub for Sustainable Urbanization.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs
• Innovation teams and labs

The Nordic Smart City Network is a collaboration initiative joining five Nordic countries, and currently 20 Nordic cities with a common goal: to explore the Nordic way to create livable and sustainable cities.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Partner networks

At Copenhagen Solutions Lab, we support the development of the city through testing and implementation of intelligent and data-driven solutions, that support the needs of the city and its citizens.

• cities
• mobility

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs

Civic innovation & equality in DC

• cities

• Civic apps outfits

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• cities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Consumer watchdogging
• Service alerts

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Data governance
• Open innovation

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• cities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Un consorcio de organizaciones de la sociedad civil conformado por Asuntos del Sur, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, Extituto de Política Abierta e Instituto Pro Comum quienes tienen como misión conjunta impulsar formas innovadoras de gobernanza y acción colectiva en Ciudades del Sur Global.

• cities

• Partner networks

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• cities

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• cities

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Co-design

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• cities

• Fellowships

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• cities
• Gender Equality

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles